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Valentines are generally doggerel." "Need it be quite original?" asked Edith. "Well, if you really can't compose anything, we'll allow quotations." "Cracker mottoes?" suggested Dulcie. "Exactly. They're just about in the right style." "Are you all getting into a sentimental vein?" giggled Bertha. "Remember 'Love' rhymes with 'Dove, and Cupid with with " "Stupid," supplied Dulcie laconically.
Afterward they were reissued in Boston and met with warm commendations for the nobility of sentiment and smooth versification. So to Phillis Wheately belongs the honor of having been one of the first female poets in Boston. And young men even now celebrated their sweethearts' charms in rhyme. Gay gallants wrote their own valentines.
I have a cold, and can't go out of my room, and mother is out, and and I was awfully lonesome, so I played I was Cinderella. And then I just happened to think I'd telephone you just for fun " "Have you a stepmother? Is she cruel to you?" "Mercy, no! Mother is the dearest thing in the world, and she adores me, spoils me, in fact. She's gone out now to get me some things to make valentines with.
So it seems that the custom of young men choosing maidens for valentines, or saints as patrons for the coming year, arose in this wise. Charles, Duke of Orleans, who was taken prisoner at the battle of Agincourt in 1415, and detained in England twenty-five years, was the author of the earliest known written valentines. He left about sixty of them.
While the dainty envelopes were being passed around her, a shade of wistfulness crept over the child's face, and her eager fingers crumpled the checked apron as though Alma feared they might otherwise touch the beautiful valentines that shone so enticingly with red and blue, gold and silver.
The Major stayed in town for the evening mail and drove home after dark, alone, but complacent, almost jovial. He had got three valentines. At Widewood that same hour there was deep silence. Since the first of the year the only hands left on the place were a decrepit old negro and wife, whom even he pronounced "wuthless," quartered beyond the stable-yard's farther fence.
"'I know it, says I. 'And I'll bet you his pictures are on valentines, and fool men are his game, red and white. "'You win on the red, says John Tom, calm. 'Jeff, for how many ponies do you think I could buy Mrs. Conyers? "'Scandalous talk! I replies. ''Tis not a paleface custom. John Tom laughs loud and bites into a cigar.
Paid off my ship yesterday at Spithead, and here I am again on Valentine's Day. Temple and I stared hard at a big man with a bronzed skin and a rubicund laugh who expected to receive valentines. My aunt thrust the letter back to me secretly. 'It must be from a lady, said she. 'Why, who'd have a valentine from any but a lady? exclaimed the captain. The squire winked at me to watch his guest.
She showed them some curious valentines, whose initials spelled names or words, and were called acrostics, and told of some quaint old-fashioned valentines that had been sent to her grandmother. "And now," she said finally, "we've had enough of the sentimental side, I will read you a funny valentine story." So, in her whimsical, dramatic fashion, she read the tragic tale of Mr.
The walls were plastered over with newspaper-cuttings, with old prints from illustrated journals, with snippets torn off valentines and keepsakes. Stuck one on another, these formed a kind of loose wallpaper, which stirred in the draught. Tilly went on: "I see myself to it being kept cleanish; 'e hates the girl to come bothering round. Oh, just Johnny's rubbish!"
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